Seashell vs. Conch

the empty shell of a marine mollusk

A very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.

Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashell.

The shell of any marine mollusk.

the shell of a marine organism

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal that lives in the sea. The shell is part of the body of the animal.

A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

The shell of this sea animal.

A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.

(architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.

synonym of concher

To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. Strombus gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo and cameo conch.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; - so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

See Concha, n.

The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

Conch () is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends).